[Dal Canal, Srinagar.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Genre: Landscape Photography Bourne no. 833. View on the Dal Canal, with an Indian figure fishing with a spear in the foreground under overhanging trees. Bourne and Shephed catalogue number partially trimmed off, but this can be identified as no. 833, 'Chunars overhanging Dhul Canal.' Another ...
Sluice outlet on the east side of the Kankariya Tank, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the triple openings of the sluices feeding the tank, constructed from richly-carved stone, flanked by two columns similar in style to the bases of many of the mosque minarets in Ahmadabad. India Museum no. 1505. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871...
View of the Krishna River and anicut from Colonel Orr's house, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from a neighbouring hill, looking across agricultural land towards Vijayawada and the Krishna River beyond. The masonry dam or anicut across the river can just be discerned left of centre. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Government workshops and Kistna Anicut, Vijayawada (Bezwada), with Sitanagaram Hill in the distance. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the workshops in the foreground, with the dam or anicut across the river beyond, and the hill rising from the far bank. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Silt trap at entrance to lock chamber on the Kistna Canal, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along one of the scouring sluices built to keep free from silt the heads of the canals which lead off from the dam. With barges moored in the silt trap. Part of the dam or anicut can be seen in the right background, with the government workshops seen in...
Small channel steamer on the Eluru Canal, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards a small paddle steamer on a narrow channel of the canal, with the houses of a village beyond. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Cotton boats on the Eluru and Masulipatam Canals, probably near Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a section of canal, with cotton boats moored along the left bank and at the ghat in the foreground. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
